SECONDARY teachers across Scotland will be taking part in further strike action.

The Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association (SSTA) will be joining members of other unions during industrial action on Tuesday, February 28, and Wednesday, March 1, in a dispute over pay.

We previously reported that the NASUWT union announced the strike dates for its members, as well as the EIS.

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Seamus Searson, SSTA general secretary, said: “The SSTA has taken a measured approach to industrial action due to the impact it would have on the pupils preparing for exams.

"The deliberate inaction of the Scottish Government and COSLA just shows the lack of respect and level of contempt, not only for teachers, but for the pupils they teach, forcing teachers to take more strike action.

"The Scottish Government and its accomplice COSLA are failing education, having deliberately refused to put any new money on the table since August last year.

“The Scottish Government and COSLA were adamant during the pandemic that schools needed to be kept open and education needed to be continued regardless of the risks and dangers that teachers were placed in.

"These are the same people who have allowed this pay dispute to continue, see schools closed and pupils’ education disrupted. 

“How many more times are teachers to hear the same old rhetoric ‘we value teachers, and we are putting together a new offer’ only for another week to pass without a penny being put on the table. The SSTA has no option but to step up its industrial action."